Word: thanking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...thank my children, nieces, nephews for being here," Kennedy said at the reception. "It was really a family affair. This has always been something that has brought us all together...
...such so-called reforms. "It is the very narrow- mindedness of some prosecutors that is always the best edge for a defense," she says. "They think they can just come into court, put on their evidence, and that will be the end of the story. They stop there. Well, thank God, juries don't." Legal scholars say juries have always been unpredictable, refusing to bend to controls the authorities hope to impress on them. "The tradition is that juries are the ultimate arbiter of law, not judges and not the state," says Anthony D'Amato, a law professor at Northwestern...
...time great bubble blowers. Never did those bubbles burst, either. Scheme after scheme was launched and christened. My ideas, no matter how fatuous, were buoyed up by her goodwill. It was, and is, one of my ambitions to write something that would last -- forever, no less -- as a thank-you letter to the U.S., where I have been so well treated. Months passed in this way, until the idea began to collapse under its own weight. She did not scold. But, she said, in her best down-feathered voice, "Don't let's talk anymore about that book...
Carey, the whole Council knows that your leadership and dedication were the main reasons for our tremendous year. You will be greatly missed around the office next year, and, on behalf of the entire Council and the entire student body, I would like to thank you for everything that you have done to make Harvard a better place to spend four years. Joshua D. Liston '95 Vice President, Undergraduate Council
Afterwards, I would defend my actions by claiming that I was only trying to promote rational debate and show that marriage and religion "should not be taken seriously." Rather than censure me, the family should thank me for introducing rational discourse into the otherwise emotionally and politically charged atmosphere of the family wedding. You're welcome, Aunt May. Too bad if I happened to ruin cousin Lisa's wedding day in a moment of selfimportant delusion. poor misunderstood me, but ever valiant in fighting the good fight...